mapping in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Privacy perils of social networking
Comment But, asks lawyer Patrick Van Eecke, does this new craze for 'social mapping' take privacy law into unchartered territory? The rise of social mapping - should social networks keep geographic tabs on users? [12 Nov 2008]
The Naked CIO: The great recovery disaster
Comment Just mapping the organisation's IT real estate is in itself a complex and confusing exercise. Many organisations have elaborate disaster-recovery plans. But how many plans are based on fragile theory rather than... [01 Sep 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore ¦ Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam ¦ Photos: Satellite... [13 Dec 2007]
Time to rethink performance management
Comment One can gain a view of how well companies are doing today by mapping IT practices and capabilities onto business managers' perceptions of how their information needs are being met. Most businesses pride themselves on... [04 Dec 2007]
Location, location, location...
Comment The influx of these web-based mapping services and pervasive GPS data is bringing geography to the masses and also stimulating the corporate appetite for exploiting location technology. We are all familiar with web-based... [09 Oct 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Life on Google Earth
Comment Everybody - from academics to estate agents, via ecological and political campaigners - has found huge benefits which revolutionise or redefine what they do by mashing-up mission or business critical data with Google Earth's... [06 Nov 2006]
Leader: Gordon Brown joins the IT crowd
Leader The Tories have begun to take pot shots at the government on tech-related issues as wide-ranging as DNA databases, chip and PIN and digital mapping, while the Lib Dems have been solid in their opposition to ID cards. [14 Feb 2006]
Leader: Driven by in-car connectivity
Leader We'll see ever-more realistic mapping and more intuitive user interfaces and voices. There has long been all manner of semiconductors and software in cars and other autos. But we sense we are on the verge of something... [06 Feb 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: GPS changes everything
Comment We stand on the edge of a new era in terms of maps and mapping where individuals will contribute their location data, photographs and floor plans using mobile devices. One motivation for this is the 'thin' nature of maps... [28 Nov 2005]
Microsoft v Google, round two
AS Analysis On the other hand, Google is seemingly going from strength to strength - inveigling its way into the desktop market with its desktop search product, and proving it's more than a one trick pony by going beyond search to branch out into... [26 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Choose the right vendor
Comment It's all about mapping functionality against time. Don't want your company to get stuck with an IT vendor that will disappoint you later on? Try this evaluation process outlined by Quocirca's Clive Longbottom. [29 Nov 2004]
Brunel University's Business Class: Create a living IT system
Comment Only by mapping each business capability clearly like this will the IT department or external consultant be able to translate this into a technical specification - and so design a technical solution that is understood... [19 Sep 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM v BHAL, location-based services and ecommerce VAT
Comment Knowledge of location makes perfect sense for any type of mapping or navigation service and there has been much attention focused on driver aids in cars. The destination location can be searched for by address and... [11 Aug 2003]
The Ovum View: WLAN - beyond simple data access
Comment WLANs in petrol or service stations could be used to download diagnostic and fault information to repair services and at the same time to upload software profiles to the engine and onboard information to driver-oriented services -... [17 Apr 2003]
Start-up of the Month: A government portal?
Comment Now, by using GIS mapping techniques and content management software an entire development plan can be published and maintained electronically. You find start-ups in the strangest of places these days. [31 Jan 2003]
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